[Os-project-managers] Ticket 50

[Horand Gassmann]

Kipp Martin <kmartin at chicagobooth.edu> wrote:

> Hi Guys:
>
> My honest opinion is that anyone using embedded blanks in a file  
> name gets what they deserve. I suppose at some point we may need to  
> address this but I vote to put it on the back burner. We enough  
> enough to do. I think we should resolve ticket 14 and then do what  
> is necessary to finish the OSoL/OSrL paper.  It is inconceivable to  
> me that we should contemplate going down this path at this point.

I agree with the prioritization, but I would attach a bit more urgency  
to it than "back burner". First, the fix is rather simple. Putting  
some more patterns into OSParseosss.l is trivial, and I do not  
understand your reluctance in allowing OSAmplClient access to the  
command line parser. I simply do not. Sorry.

The other point is that Mike talked about folder names, not file  
names, and there the user actually may not have a lot of choice. Under  
Windows, for instance, it is quite common to have one's files stored  
under the "My Documents" folder, which is generated by the system. I  
think it is a bit much to ask the user to change the name or use a  
different location just so that OSAmplClient can stay "pure". No  
offense, but I definitely think you are misguided on this one.

Cheers

gus


>> some very preliminary thoughts about ticket 50. Mike Steglich wants to
>> be able to use files and folders that have embedded spaces. He proposes
>> to use the form
>> -osol "folder with spaces/filename"
>> for this purpose and started to code some patches to OSSolverService
>> that would allow him to strip the quotes at the right time. (Other file
>> types would be handled analagously.)
>>
>> My take on this is that if we allow it, we must allow it everywhere,
>> that is, in the config file, the osol file, the interactive shell, the
>> OSSolverService command line, and the OSAmplClient. I do not like Mike's
>> patches, and he admits himself that they do not always work. My
>> preferred approach would be to add further patterns to the command line
>> parser OSParseosss.l, (and to let OSAmplClient use the same command line
>> parser!!!)
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> gus
>>
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Horand I. Gassmann, Professor

School of Business Administration, Dalhousie University
6100 University Avenue, PO Box 15000
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B3H 4R2
ph. (902) 494-1844
fax (902) 494-1107

http://myweb.dal.ca/gassmann/